Re: [q-lang-users] Complex numbers

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> I suppose we could bit-by-bit replace the entire Q-in-C system with
> a Q-in-Scheme system, compiler, interpreter, user program and all.

Yes, that should be possible, but I'm probably not the one who is going 
to do it. ;-) I'd rather like to bootstrap Q in Q once we have native 
compilation.

> It wouldn't need its own garbage collector any more

I'm not sure about that. At least it would still need to do reference 
counting, since I want objects encapsulating state to be cleaned up 
(closing files, etc.) as soon as possible. This makes handling temporary 
stateful objects much more convenient.

> Chicken doesn't do native threads, though, only call/cc based ones.

I guess that this would be a showstopper for me, with all the realtime 
multimedia applications I'm doing.

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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